Numbers 18:27

18:27 And your raised offering will be credited ¹  to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine ²  from the winepress.

Numbers 18:30

18:30 “Therefore you will say to them, ³  ‘When you offer up ⁴  the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

Numbers 23:9

23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see them; ⁵ 

from the hills I watch them. ⁶ 

Indeed, a nation that lives alone,

and it will not be reckoned ⁷  among the nations.

[18:27]  ¹ tn The verb is חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon; to count; to think”); it is the same verb used for “crediting” Abram with righteousness. Here the tithe of the priests will be counted as if it were a regular tithe.

[18:27]  ² tn Heb “fullness,” meaning the fullness of the harvest, i.e., a full harvest.

[18:30]  ³ tn The wording of this verse is confusing; it may be that it is addressed to the priests, telling them how to deal with the offerings of the Levites.

[18:30]  ⁴ tn The clause begins with the infinitive construct with its preposition and suffixed subject serving to indicate the temporal clause.

[23:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “him,” but here it refers to the Israelites (Israel).

[23:9]  ⁶ sn Balaam reports his observation of the nation of Israel spread out below him in the valley. Based on that vision, and the Lord’s word, he announces the uniqueness of Israel – they are not just like one of the other nations. He was correct, of course; they were the only people linked with the living God by covenant.

[23:9]  ⁷ tn The verb could also be taken as a reflexive – Israel does not consider itself as among the nations, meaning, they consider themselves to be unique.